Age is not relevant to maturity

[Ashraful Haque]

Me and my friends casually talking about random topics:
Friend: Maturity comes with age.
Me: I have to disagree. Maturity is not relevant to age.

Since we were both non-native speakers, we both understood what I was trying to say (it's true, non-native speakers understand bad/broken English better ).
I must have picked up the term from somewhere, because I don't even know if it makes sense in this context.
Have I used it correctly?

 

[Tarheel]

I agree with your friend. Generally speaking maturity and age are associated. (Maturity comes with age.) However, there are exceptions. You can't always count on a person acting the way you might expect based on his age. (I agree with both of you.) I might have said, "Generally speaking, yes. But people don't always act their age."

 

[emsr2d2]

Me and my friends My friends and I were casually talking and someone said:

If you want to give an English teacher an aneurysm, keep opening sentences with "Me and my ..."!

 

[Ashraful Haque]

If you want to give an English teacher an aneurysm, keep opening sentences with "Me and my ..."!

I'm sorry. You've corrected me several times before. It won't' happen again. I promise.

 

[Ashraful Haque]

I agree with your friend. Generally speaking maturity and age are associated. (Maturity comes with age.) However, there are exceptions. You can't always count on a person acting the way you might expect based on his age. (I agree with both of you.) I might have said, "Generally speaking, yes. But people don't always act their age."

Since you've understood what I tried to say, I guess I've used 'relevant to' correctly here. Let me try a few more sentences.

1) Happiness is not relevant to how rich you are.
2) Sales are relevant to how successful you'll become.
3) The number of workers isn't relevant to productivity.

Please let me know if I've used 'relevant to' in all the sentences correctly.

 

[Barque]

I don't think "relevant" is the appropriate word in any of those sentences.

1) Happiness is not relevant to how rich you are.

You mean it the other way round. How rich you are isn't relevant to your happiness. This means Your wealth doesn't determine how happy you are.
Your sentence on the other hand means Your happiness doesn't determine how rich you are. See the difference?

I'd say:
Your wealth doesn't determine how happy you are.
Happiness doesn't depend on how much money you have.

2) Sales are relevant to how successful you'll become.

The higher your sales, the more successful you are.
The higher your sales, the more money you'll make.

3) The number of workers isn't relevant to productivity.

This is a little better. But to be accurate, I think you need The number of workers isn't always relevant to productivity.

I'd prefer: Productivity doesn't always depend on the number of workers.

 

[Tarheel]

Since you've understood what I tried to say, I guess I've used 'relevant to' correctly here. Let me try a few more sentences.

1) Happiness is not relevant to how rich you are.
2) Sales are relevant to how successful you'll become.
3) The number of workers isn't relevant to productivity.

Please let me know if I've used 'relevant to' in all the sentences correctly.

Sorry! I didn't mean to mislead you.

In the first example, I would say the two things are not directly related.

Being rich doesn't make you happy. (It does make you more comfortable in your misery.)

Sales are only one indicator of productivity.

The number of workers isn't related to productivity. (That one comes closest to how I would use the word "relevant".)

I guess I was too subtle again.

 

[Ashraful Haque]

Friend: Maturity comes with age.
Me: I have to disagree. Maturity is not relevant to age.

Please let me know what would you guys say in place of 'maturity is not relevant to age'? I know there are a lot of other ways to say it. But I want to know what you guys would say without changing anything else.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please let me know what would you guys would say in place of 'maturity is not relevant to age'. I know there are a lot of other ways to say it no full stop here but I want to know what you guys would say without changing anything else.

Note my corrections above.

Maturity has nothing to do with age.

 

[probus]

Please note @Ashraful Haque that I have edited your thread title to remove the question mark after the word "relevant". A question mark can only be placed at the end of an interrogative sentence. Any other use of a question mark is incorrect.

 

[Ashraful Haque]

Note my corrections above.

This is something I've always been a little confused about.
"Please let me know what you would say in place of 'maturity is not relevant to age'."
I said 'you guys' because in my I was thinking more than one person. And in my language you can never use 'you' if you mean more than one person.
But I think I've heard people using 'you' even when they're referring to more than one person.

 

[Tarheel]

The word "you" is often used to indicate more than one person. For example, if you are talking to two people you could, for example, say, "What are you planning to do?" Or perhaps: "Where are you going after the wedding?"

 

[emsr2d2]

This is something I've always been a little confused about.
"Please let me know what you would say in place of 'maturity is not relevant to age'."
I said 'you guys' because in my [missing word] I was thinking about more than one person. And In my language, you can never use 'you' if you mean more than one person no full stop here but I think I've heard people using 'you' even when they're referring to more than one person.

Using "you" for more than one person is absolutely fine. I removed "guys" because we're not all male and, even for those people who don't care about "guys" being used for males and females, it's completely unnecessary. Reserve it for chatting with your friends.

 

[Ashraful Haque]

"Where are you going after the wedding?"

Can I say that even when I'm asking the question to both of them?
In most movies they usually say 'guys' even when they're talking only to the bride.

 

[Tarheel]

@Ashraful Haque Of course! That's the point I was making.

I think you're mistaken. The word "guys" is used informally to refer to a group of people -- certainly not one woman.